Current Research Core Projects

Current Core activities include the analyses of data on various substance and behavioral addictions, and both clinical and non-clinical research studies. An important feature of the research conducted in this Core is the interdisciplinary and translational nature of the work. The Core also benefits from collaborations with other Research Cores and research groups both at Yale and beyond.


Current projects include examining:

• How mother-child interactions might influence the propensity or risk for developing addictions
  

• Gender-related differences in genetic contributions to adolescent risk-taking
  

• Brain activation responses to food cues and stress and their relationships to obesity and metabolic factors in women compared to men
  

• Sex-specific brain white matter integrity in prenatally drug-exposed youth

• Responses to addiction-related cues by gender in those with gambling and/or drug use problems

• Stress and drug-cue responsiveness in women and men with cocaine dependence